Now user file is very simple with no special stuff, and as in bbs nothing personal and not so serious for personal life then password is unecrypted in this of user auth implementation. In guture linuxpam or any other secure authentification system should be used. (futures is same as guture). No special characters only [a-z][A-Z][0-9]. Example: user1 pass1 root asd123 As there is no big interest in BBS then while all this stuff will stay "unsecure" and "oldschool"